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Test your knowledge of the environmental impact of your favorite foods and products

Conservation, People and Wildlife | Mar 11, 2020

The 2020 World Consumer Rights Day celebrates the Sustainable Consumer! Shopping with sustainability and wildlife in mind sends a signal that destructive products simply won’t do anymore. Click below and … Read more

A Scary Ingredient in your Halloween Candy is Destroying Rainforests and Harming Wildlife

Conservation, People and Wildlife, Wildlife Facts | Oct 29, 2019

This Halloween, we should consider swapping the ordinary images of graveyards, ghosts and witches with that of burnt forests, skeletal trees and dying wildlife – because the scariest part of … Read more

A Win for Wildlife: A New & Improved Sustainability Standard for Palm Oil

Conservation | Nov 30, 2018

Whether or not you’ve heard of palm oil, you’ve likely either eaten it or used products that contain it. Each year, more than 60 million tons of palm oil is … Read more

Cloud Forest, Rain Forest: A NYC Eco-School Goes to Ecuador

Conservation, Students and Nature | Oct 21, 2013

Guest post by Margaret Palmer This past spring, my high school (Stuyvesant High School), an NWF Eco-School in New York City, gave me and twenty-four other students involved in our Eco-Club the incredible … Read more

COP15 Update: The Answer is in the Forest

Conservation | Dec 16, 2009

With deforestation responsible for roughly 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, we have an opportunity to bridge a significant gap between what science tells us is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change and the amount of reductions nations like the U.S. are willing to put on the table. Read more

Did You Get That Handbag From…The Amazon Rainforest?

Conservation | Dec 12, 2009

Here in Copenhagen, while negotiators hash out the details of an international climate agreement, thousands of organizations and businesses from all over the globe are monitoring the talks and bringing … Read more

Rainforest Education at Evergreen State College

Conservation | Mar 11, 2009

Nalini Nadkarni, a faculty member at Evergreen State College, talked to TED about her work studying and preserving rainforests, including outreach projects that get inner-city youth from Washington into the … Read more

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